Former Federal Treasurer and putative national leader, Peter Costello in The Sydney Morning Herald expresses skepticism about the politics of global warming. Others express disbelief about the climate science.(more…)

You might not believe it but I try to maintain some standards. Sometimes I get tired. I then latch onto the first thing I see. It seems that Facebook is the new version of the party line telephone service.(more…)

On the 30th April 2008, three men entered the Echeleon spy base at Waihopai in Marlborough, New Zealand and after praying cut down the plastic dome covering that protected two satellite receivers. Wednesday, a week ago, a jury allowed them to go free on the basis of a claim of right.(more…)

So this is where we are in the reign of televisual democracy. If quality of the dialogue and argument are the measure of our democracy we now firmly located in the region of the pathetic, or at best, lame.(more…)

The drama associated with the corporatist health legislation drove any reports of the the protests against the “colonial occupations” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Too bad about the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq – what was that about the Nuremberg principles?(more…)

Israel, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, it seems is the super power and the United States lead by Obama is the “lieutenant”, or when the Israelis want to be nice they describe the North Americans as their “partner”.(more…)

African-Americans comprise 13% of a United States population of more than 308 million people. Dr Cornel West, we are told, is the first of that population category to obtain a Ph.D from Princeton University.(more…)